A Webinar Q&A with Michelle Alexander | Teaching the New Jim Crow

A Webinar Q&A with Michelle Alexander

Hosted by Tolerance.org

Author of The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness*

A Teacher's Guide will be Available at the link above!

Check out the questions by visiting Twitter and searching #aquestionforMichelle @tolerance_org

Teaching Tolerance is pleased to host a LIVE conversation with Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Ms. Alexander will discuss her book and its relevance to educators, and take questions from our webinar audience via Twitter. Participants will also learn about the upcoming teacher's guide to The New Jim Crow, developed by Teaching Tolerance for high school educators who wish to teach about topics such as racial caste and mass incarceration.

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TBW INTERVIEWS: Will Roy / The Beat Within Interviews Pt. 1 (2003)

Will Roy Interview: click here (.PDF)

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The Beat Within Interviews Pt. 1

by Lee Rhyanes

This interview was conducted in 2003 as part of a journal article titled “The Violence of Youth, The Presence of a Pen” for the NMSU Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. The title was inspired from part 1 of Luis Rodriguez’s text Hearts & Hands, Creating Community in Violent Times, “The Violence of Youth, the Abscence of Elders”. Will Roy was the first person Lee Rhyanes interviewed upon finding out about The Beat through the website www.thebeatwithin.org.  The other interviews included Co-Founder/Director David Inocencio and a Beat staff at the time Michael Kroll. The interview was recorded over landline phone and transcribed by Rhyanes. An audio recording poem titled ((I Write)) is also archived at youtube.com/voicesbehindwalls.  This is the first audio recording posted from VBW in effort to begin development of the site's "Justice Archive" that will include audio recordings, writings, artworks, and sketches of photographs taken during VBW workshops hosted inside of juvenile detention.  Immediate links to the VBW Research Network, the VBW Justice Archive ((Audio)), and the full interview in PDF can be accessed below.  In order to read and see the interview you will need to have Adobe Reader which you can access for free at the following link: get.adobe.com/reader/.

Will Roy Interview: click here (.PDF)

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The Beat Within Interviews Pt. 1

by Lee Rhyanes

VBW Justice Archive: ((I Write)) by Will Roy feat. Avoid the Lyricist

VBWJA-audi0-20140902-WR1

VBW Justice Archive ((Audios)): click here

VBW Research Network: vbwresearch.blogspot.com

Will Roy - I Write post click here

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